Sunday: Hili dialogue

October 14, 2018 • 6:30 am

by Grania

Good morning!

It’s the birthday of Marie of Anjou (1404 –1463) wife of King Charles VII and regent in his absence. She had 14 children (dear God); Other notables’ birthdays are E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (1894 -1962); Cliff Richard (1940), English singer-songwriter and actor; Craig Venter (1946), American biologist, geneticist, and academic; and Usher (1978), American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor.

The musical offerings are this one from way back, when musicals and movies were charmingly naive.

I’m somewhat under-educated on Mr Usher’s oeuvre, this one is melodious enough for a Sunday morning.

In history today all the way back in 1066 the Norman conquest of England was underway: during the Battle of Hastings the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeated the English army and killed King Harold II of England. In 1656 Massachusetts enacted the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Wikipedia notes: “The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive”.

In 1908 the Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, to win the World Series; they didn’t win it again til 2016. In 1926 the children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, was published. In 1979 the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on Washington, D.C. was held, advocating for equal civil rights.

And now on to business.

Source

Hili is being very enigmatical today. But she is quite correct.

Hili: Everything has to be checked.
A: Why?
Hili: Too many illusions are hanging around.
In Polish:
Hili: Wszystko trzeba sprawdzać.
Ja: Dlaczego?
Hili: Za dużo iluzji się tu kręci.
From Twitter:
When the world will not cooperate with you.

I know we are living in the future, but I am not sure the world needs this. Couldn’t we just get hoverboards? (I bet Douglas Adams would be kicking himself for not dreaming up this an an alternative plot for Hotblack Desiato).

Cat art, of a sort

A fine fossil. The tweet author also added “The eater is Mioplosus Labracoides, an early- to mid-Eocene fish. The eatee is Knightia Eocaena, the state fossil of Wyoming, related to herrings and sardines.”

A Kundt’s Tube in action

And this is a dad in action

https://twitter.com/rmayemsinger/status/1051227796410839040

Angry Australians

If J. Michael Straczynski ‏ says it, then it’s true.

An optical illusion

https://twitter.com/ZonePhysics/status/1051053424815542277

Cow gets scritches

https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1051179206996971520

Finally, one step for man, etc…

 

https://twitter.com/BoringEnormous/status/1051171777546780672

26 thoughts on “Sunday: Hili dialogue”

  1. Ah, Hotblack Desiato, spending a year dead for tax reasons.

    I’ve always suspected Disaster Area was modelled on Pink Floyd, if for no reason other than that he was invited to play at a Pink Floyd concert on his 42nd birthday.

    Quite right that Adams would have loved the Winehouse’s hologram idea.

    cr

    1. Sorry, for “he” read Doug Adams, of course. Apologies for being even more obscure than usual 🙁

      cr

    2. Well I never had the honour of meeting him, but I don’t think he would have loved it. I think he would have regarded it as more evidence that the World is at least as bonkers as the one in his book.

      I think the following is apposite.

      There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

      1. When I say ‘loved it’, I mean as another zany idea to incorporate in a sci-fi novel.

        cr

  2. e. e. cummings

    … right? I mean, I know it’s right, but I’m not his official biographer or anything…

      1. “majuscules”

        [ highlight/select ]
        [ look up ]
        [ views definition of “majuscules” ]

        It’s the start of a great day.

          1. I knew majuscule from French, but had to look up The Surgeon. Seems I’ve read the Winchester book by its US title.

  3. In 1656 Massachusetts enacted the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers),

    Those laws made being a Quaker a hanging offense, as in the famous case of Mary Dyer, the Quaker mother of eight who was hanged in Boston after refusing to renounce her Quakerism before the colonial governor.

  4. “what’s Halloween like in Australia?”

    C’mon–Australia, where nearly every cold-blooded animal is venomous or vicious and can eat you or kill you (or so it seems). In Australia, _every day_ is Halloween!

  5. I’d always heard Cliff Richards referred to as “the English Elvis,” but from that clip he seems more like the English Frankie Avalon.

    1. He had some eminently recognizable hits in the 80s too. Check them out, you might be surprised they are him!

  7. The corvid on the roof and the little girl in the basket seem to be partaking of the same thrill. The blue boy may have had a similar goal, although with less success.

  8. I thought that head to two rain suit was overkill for that kid, but I guess the parents knew what was up.

  10. given the father’s exploitation of Amy Winehouse that was shown in the Amy documentary, I am unsurprised that she is being given the Elvis Presley Treatment

    it seems like too many musical performaers saw “This is Elvis” and are living it like a template.

  11. Ironically the raven-haired British Cliff Richard’s best song is a duet with a blue-eyed flaxen Australian.

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